[3-minute read] With the chaos of your day-to-day, growing gaps in your leadership skills are holding you back from better results. This article helps you identify two key areas to increase employee satisfaction and business results.
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[3-minutes] Advancing in your career goes beyond waiting for recognition and promotions to come to you. It requires a strategic approach and understanding of the dynamics of your organisation. One effective framework to guide your approach is the career pyramid, consisting of three tiers: Level Me, Level Team, and Level Org.
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[3-minute read] Each month we spent time with our managers in a 1:1. Do you stop and think how you could get more value out of your time together?
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[3-minute read] Over 50% of employees wish their managers were better than they are. But would you swap your manager with a ChatBot Boss? Could a ChatBot do a better job than a human manager?
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[3-minute read] Why is it so easy to focus on our flaws and reject positive feedback in the workplace? To ensure you are maximising your potential and increasing your awareness of your skills, here are four reasons to stop rejecting positive feedback.
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[4-minute read] Is promotion the only way to measure our careers? In a culture where being promoted is the gold standard for progress. I want to explore a different perspective on how to progress your career long term by broadening your options outside of just focusing on that one promotion.
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[6-minute read] In a culture of giving regular feedback why do we have so many surprises when it comes time for promotions? In this article I share 3 of my common observations over time and what you can do you about it as a manager or employee.
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[5-minute read] So what does your manager do all day? They say hi in the morning then disappear for hours at a time. They are seen dashing from one side of the office to the other. They are sending emails outside of hours and look busy all the time. This article is focused on peeling back the curtain to give you some insights on what your manager is doing all day.
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[5-minute read] We often find ourselves introducing ourselves to new people. As much as we don’t like it, we are being judged in 30 seconds. Planning and delivering a high-quality elevator pitch can make a big difference to your meetings and ongoing relationships. In this article, I share my view on how to develop a great personal elevator pitch to help you kick off any encounter with the labels you deserve.
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[5-minute read] Like many of you, I battle imposter syndrome on a regular basis. Over the last few years, I have been working hard to get some sort of control over my imposter. I feel I can now pause my imposter to ensure I keep growing my skills and career. After having so many conversations in the last few months I decided to share my observations and tips. I hope you enjoy the read and are able to pause your imposter in the near future.
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[6-minute read] - After my previous article helping techies take on management roles. I got asked about non techies moving into techie roles. This article has 6 things that will help anyone thinking about moving into a technical role understand the foundations of the role as well as what changes they would need to start making. I hope you enjoy the read.
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[5-minute read] Working with graduates brings back fond memories of my early career years. There are so many things I would tell myself that would have saved me some time. Even though there are many more tips that could be written. I wanted to write 6 tips to people early in their career or might be looking to reboot it. I hope you find these 6 tips useful and they help you as they help me day to day. If you have any tips I would love to hear them.
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[7-minute read] A lot of techies consider changing their role. Many of them want to get into team management or leadership roles but are not sure if they can do it, or where to start. This article is dedicated to those techies that want to move their career to a leadership role but don’t think they have the skills to make the jump. These are ten skills that you already have mapped to your new role.
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[5-minute read] As managers, we feel like we need to be giving advice whenever there is an opportunity. While coaching is on everyone's mind these days we need to learn to listen. To really listen in order to coach the team members we need to learn to be quiet and listen. Here are 5 tips I apply to myself as much as possible to help.
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[4-minute read] Last year although so many things went well there were still so many things that didn't go the way I had planned. Even though I was tempted to go into a dark loop of blame and feeling shame my curiosity and some skills I acquired turned these moments into things I could learn from and quickly progress forward from. I wanted to share 5 tips based on a book Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn.
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[4-minute read] It seems we all have the same hours in the day, yet some people are able to get more done than others. I wanted to share 5 tips of how I optimise my time in some areas to ensure I can fit in 1-2 extra things a day.
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[4-minute read] Are you reflecting on the year that just past? Are you thinking of your new year goals? Atomic Habits is a simple and powerful way to think differently about how you be more successful next year. I really enjoyed the read and wanted to write about it in the context of how I will be looking at the week, month and year ahead.
[4-minute read] Have you ever pitched an amazing idea? Only to see it dismissed or have it fail to generate the excitement you expected? If so that I wanted to share 6 principles that will help you understand the main levers that you could be leveraging in order to have a high success rate in getting your ideas heard.
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[3-minute read] It is common today to be told to get a mentor. But why would you need one? How do you find that that is suitable to you? In this article I write about the 8 primary attributes that you should be looking for in the people around you to help upgrade your career.
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[4-minutes read] Your manager might look calm and collected. But just behind their cool exterior there are at least 8 things they are scared off when it comes to people management. Here are 8 things that scare me on a week to week basis.
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